Yes, they're built entirely in SI with a bit of cleanup in comp. It's not a single tool but rather a shading network using mental ray caustics, working together with different softimage scenes. So, there is no tool in particular and rendertimes are quite high. The whole setup is not very user friendly, except for myself :) My intention from the beginning was to make ready-to-go sequences for use as lightmaps.
Glad you like it. sven From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Vincent Fortin Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2014 5:49 PM To: softimage Subject: Re: Advanced water caustics This is quite impressive! Are they built in SI? I've made a similar setup in ICE but don't have the same accuracy as you in the chromatic dispersion yet. Looks awesome, congrats (maybe you should sell the tool?) On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 4:47 PM, Sven Constable <[email protected]> wrote: Hello list, in case you will need highest quality water caustics (for the one out of 50 projects)... I made a bunch of them. I started working on it over a year ago when I needed high quality caustics for a project and I didn't find anything that would give me really nice results. So I built them by myself and they were so useful that I decided to make more variations and make it also more versatile und useful for others. Yes, there are caustic sequences already available on stock footage websites (filmed and CG) and there are also caustic generators out there, but they are often in low res, or LDR or not loopable and have no chromatic dispersion (what is very important to have a realistic look). Filmed caustics are obviously not useful in general and most of the CG versions look very artificial. To my knowledge, there is no caustic sequence that has all these features combined and looking decent at the same time. I spend a lot of time to make them as realistic and versatile as possible. I made them commercially available and they might be useful for your upcoming underwater shots. Even it is quite a niche product. They comes as 200 frames loopable sequences in 2k exr, with chromatic dispersion and are suited for different water depths. Four sets are available: For pool scenes, fishtanks, ocean scenes and 'Miniature'. Each set contains two versions and each of these contains four depth versions (1,2,4 and 8m). So you will get eight sequences for each scenario or 32 sequences in total with all four sets. They can be easily combined to get even more variety. Maybe also useful for comp and motiongraphics stuff, but I designed them primarily for use in 3D scenes. You can watch them in action here and you can also download a few samples: http://advcaustics.imagefront.de/ Best regards, Sven ________________________ Sven Constable Imagefront 3D & VFX Ottobrunnerstr.2a 81737 München Germany phone (0)89 442 327 93 fax (0)89 442 327 94 www.imagefront.de
